All Quotes

“My friends, judge me by the enemies I have made. Speech made on the campaign trail in Portland, Oregon”

“I accuse the present Administration of being the greatest spending Administration in peacetime in all American history”

“The Genesis of the New Deal, 1928”

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. Letter to Oskar Pollak (1904)”

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness”

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self”

“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable”

“In the fight between you and the world, back the world. The Zürau Aphorisms (1918)”

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for man. The Zürau Aphorisms (1918)”

“Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. The Zürau Aphorisms (1918)”

“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old”

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired”

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity. Letter to Max Brod (1922)”

“It all began with the three wise men, followed a star took them to Bethelehem, and made it heard throughout the land”

“Standing Up For Queen”

“I'm as gay as a daffodil, my dear!”

“I hate pockets in trousers … By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there. As quoted in NME (2 November 1974) .”

“Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London”

“For A Song : The Mercury that's rising in rock is Freddie the satiny seductor of Queen”

“The Man Who Would Be Queen”

“Listen, if you guys wanna move around and shift your asses a little, it's okay. It's okay by us, right? You can take all your clothes off if you like too, doesn't matter... Fuck off! [laughs] During a concert in Montreal, Canada, (24 or 25 November 1981), first released as videotape We Will Rock You (1984) , and later on DVD as Queen Rock Montreal (2007).”

“Hello everybody! Hey hey hey! Okay! Do you know it's not... it's not very often that we do shows in daylight. And I fucking wish we'd done before, I can see you all now. And there's some beauties here tonight, I can tell you! Live at Milton Keynes Bowl (5 June 1982) .”

“I would have loved to have been on the Band Aid record but I only heard about it when I was in Germany. I don’t know if they would have had me on the record anyway, because I’m a bit old. I’m just an old slag who gets up every morning, scratches his head and wonders what he wants to fuck. As quoted in "Blame it on Rio" by Robin Smith, in Record Mirror (26 January 1985) .”

“Give me a kiss, dearest lover. I'm certain that you still love me, and I fear you always, like some tyrant over me. I don't know why, but I fear you. Upon my word, only you have power over me, you and... no one else. Chopin to Tytus Woyciechowski, 5 October 1830”

“I'm glad that the secret is submerged in my heart, that in me is the end of what is for you the beginning. And be glad that you have in me an abyss into which you can cast everything without fear”

“No one other than I has read your letter. As always, even now, I carry your letters with me. How blissful it will it be for me, having gone beyond the city walls in May, thinking about my approaching journey, to pull out a letter of yours and assure myself sincerely that you love me, or at least to gaze at the hand and the writing of him, whom only I am able to love! Chopin to Tytus Woyciechowski, 27 March 1830”

“My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country. Letter to Camille Pleyel .”

“I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me. Quoted in Arthur Hedley , Chopin (1947).”

“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. As quoted in Chopin .”

“One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to [attain] certain unlimited dexterity... A well formed technique, it seems to me, [is one] that can control and vary a beautiful sound quality. As quoted in Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils .”